"The surest way to ignore such misalignment [profit vs. social value] is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about #AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate [...]"
https://theconversation.com/to-understand-the-risks-posed-by-ai-follow-the-money-225872
On my reading list - 3 books on understanding and resisting #Enshittification, but it's all such hard work😣
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547420/algorithms-of-resistance/
- https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/304513/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-oneil-cathy/9780141985411
Also reading these - all related to #GAI, but need to get 💯% organised in how I'm reading all this stuff & going to write about it in relation to #AcWri:
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-we-cant-afford-the-rich/9B7A3F29535B7C6F8E0F711A540E608A
- https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48721-john-o'regan/publications
- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321857/caliban-and-the-witch-by-federici-silvia/9780241532539
#Capitalism, and why it's just not ok!
This is GOOD - it implicates many in capitalist rentier neoliberal economies, where unearned income accrues from interest, rent, shares, capital gains - including those who earn a wage by working but aren't #Wealthy #Rich #SuperRich nor benefit from #InheritedWealth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-we-cant-afford-the-rich/9B7A3F29535B7C6F8E0F711A540E608A
Seemingly unrelated thoughts but connected to #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich?
I've been invited to a symposium on #WhatMakesWritingAcademic @ Warwick Uni, UK, & hope issue of #English #AcademicPublishing & #Capitalism come up:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/
'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'
Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?
#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich
I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...
"[...] if our need for fossil fuels is an addiction, the addicts are being told to stop while the dealers are getting government support!" 🔥
(Andrew Sayer, p. 334)
#WhyWeCantAffordTheRich - a book on #SocioEconomics that keeps on giving
Who's making explicit links between academic writing & #capitalism, akin to O'Regan's framing of English Language Teaching as free-riding on English language imperialism- globalisation?
Are the convergence of non-English countries to English models of academic writing, the business of #AcademicPublishing & #GAI compounding & distorting ways of writing that profit some disproportionately at the expense of knowledge?
Trying to understand..
#AcademicCapitalism
#ELT #AcWri
https://www.routledge.com/Global-English-and-Political-Economy/ORegan/p/book/9781138811126
In this book, John O’Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system. O’Regan combines Marxist perspectives of capital accumulation with world-systems analysis, international political economy, and studies of imperialism and empire to present a historical account of the ‘free riding’ of English upon the global capital netwo
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA
